Strange chars

Such Skywalker

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Feb 13, 2006, 12:22:55 PM2/13/06

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Hi, when I'm readig a text, sometimes words with accents (like the
spanish word "está") appear in a wrong way (está = estÃ¡).

I don't know what I should do to correct this problem. Anybody nows?

Thanks & sorry 4 my english.

Steve Belanger

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Feb 13, 2006, 12:41:03 PM2/13/06

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Just a hunch here, but i would point that at the character set that does not
understand that specific character and use the closest match it can find in
the rendering.

"Such Skywalker" <alejand...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Dasdan

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Feb 13, 2006, 12:48:46 PM2/13/06

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> Hi, when I'm readig a text, sometimes words with accents (like the

> spanish word "está") appear in a wrong way (está = estĂĄ).

>
> I don't know what I should do to correct this problem. Anybody nows?
>
> Thanks & sorry 4 my english.

you should convert all special chars to htmlentities:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

you can do this in php with :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Kind regards,

Kevin Wood
www.dasdan.be

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Such Skywalker

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Feb 13, 2006, 6:19:26 PM2/13/06

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I think the problem must be in other place because it does the same
thing when I use the htmlentities() function. That function translates
Ã³ into Ã³ and I want to translate it into ó.

I'll tell you what I am doing:

I'm doing an RSS reader for my homepage using the simpleXML class. The
core function is this one:

$news = simplexml_load_file($url);

if($url){
$site = "".$noticias->channel->title;
$i = 0;
foreach ($news->item as $new) {
$mystring[$sie][$i]["title"] = "".$new->title;
$mystring[$site][$i]["link"] = "".$new->link;
if(isset($new->description)){
$mystring[$new][$i]["desc"] = "".$new->description;
}
$i++;
$this->items++;
}

Well, when I get $new->title, the string has that strange characters
(example: "Â¿Bloquea TelefÃ³nica los envÃos SMTP? Â¿Es legal
hacerlo?"), and I don't know how to correct them. I've thought about
using regular expressions. ¿Any other simpler ideas?.

You can see a very earlier version of my RSS reader on
http://raquiov.is-a-geek.org/modulos/rssReader.php
If the page doesn't appear, that's because I´m sleeping (the server is
in my bedroom).

Jasen Betts

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Feb 13, 2006, 5:38:40 PM2/13/06

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On 2006-02-13, Such Skywalker <alejand...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, when I'm readig a text, sometimes words with accents (like the
> spanish word "está") appear in a wrong way (está = estÃ¡).

char se.

> está
ISO-8859-1

>estÃ¡
UTF-8

Bye.
Jasen

Such Skywalker

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Feb 13, 2006, 9:27:19 PM2/13/06

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It really was because of the encoding. I've used this function

mb_convert_encoding($string, "ISO-8859-1", "auto");

and now it works.

Thanks 4 all.

Sergey Groshev

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Feb 14, 2006, 12:59:33 AM2/14/06

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Hello, Such.

You need to specify correct html charset and set correct value for default_charset variable in php.ini

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Regards

Sergey mailto:e21...@motorola.com